Farming part-time for income
Updated Jul 14, 2025
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Hello! I'm a passionate plant lover and budding herbalist student. From the tropics, I'm learning & loving Appalachia.
Plan
Permaculture enthusiast, learning more about scale-farming methods.
I am interested in starting high profit farming that can also sustain nonprofit food growth to help tackle local food insecurity.
High yield crops of interest include those for local herbalists, restaurants, and cut flower clients.
Food insecurity crops of interest include those that are nutritious and abundant in our region, from mushrooms to edible trees, to edible weeds - I'd like to grow tasty, healthy options for those experiencing food insecurity at low-to-no cost (offset from revenue of high profit crops).
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Years of experience
0 total years of experience
0 years employed as a worker (non-manager)
0 years as a manager
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Experience details
While I've been a permaculture home gardener for about a decade, I have no formal training in commercial agricultural practices.
I am an herbalist student of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, studying under CoreyPine Shane and Rebecca Vann, among others. I'm attending local lectures as much as possible from those we're blessed to have here in AVL.
The expertise I bring to the table immediately is that how to make a profitable business. I am a marketing consultant with the ability to see ways to make businesses make more bottom line dollars, and I'd like to turn those talents on something more worthwhile in my local community.
Humbly interested in learning from local farming expert.